02-19-2018, 10:35 PM
That is one style of capacitor that I have not figured out how to restuff, a Solar "Sealtite" cap. I always figured that the Solar "Sealtites" were kind of like a carbon resistor, that they were molded and there wasn't really a way to get them apart. One strange feature about the Sealtites is that they are one of the few vintage capacitors that I have encountered where many are still functional, which is interesting since Solar was apparently a cheap brand back in the day.
Speaking of difficult to restuff, there is a guy on You Tube that demonstrates how to restuff those older plastic molded capacitors, such as the Sangamo "Little Chiefs", and the black bumble bee caps (Sprague?). I don't know how practical this is but it clearly works, he cuts one end off, and then drills out the innards with a drill bit of the appropriate size.
The restuffing I do isn't exactly museum grade, but I hate the look of yellow caps or brown/orange drops under an old radio chassis, especially if it's a pre war set, post war I care less about.
However in the case of a Canadian RCA-Victor A-30 I am working on I don't care since I'm not planning to keep the thing, and someone already had a go at recapping it in the early 60s so most of the originals are gone. It's a six tube console from 1940-41 and is not rare, nor valuable, but I'm doing a quick and dirty job on it like some of the Fleabay and Radio Attic sellers do and have it come back to bite me.
Regards
Arran
Speaking of difficult to restuff, there is a guy on You Tube that demonstrates how to restuff those older plastic molded capacitors, such as the Sangamo "Little Chiefs", and the black bumble bee caps (Sprague?). I don't know how practical this is but it clearly works, he cuts one end off, and then drills out the innards with a drill bit of the appropriate size.
The restuffing I do isn't exactly museum grade, but I hate the look of yellow caps or brown/orange drops under an old radio chassis, especially if it's a pre war set, post war I care less about.
However in the case of a Canadian RCA-Victor A-30 I am working on I don't care since I'm not planning to keep the thing, and someone already had a go at recapping it in the early 60s so most of the originals are gone. It's a six tube console from 1940-41 and is not rare, nor valuable, but I'm doing a quick and dirty job on it like some of the Fleabay and Radio Attic sellers do and have it come back to bite me.
Regards
Arran
